The Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has lambasted senior US State Department official, Brian Hook, for an apparent wilful revisionism of history.

Iran Press/Iran News: The Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has lambasted Brian H. Hook, the US Special Representative for Iran and Senior Policy Advisor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for patently false comments and a seeming attempt to "revise or re-write history." 

Zarif chided Hook after he claimed the CIA had no part in bringing down the 1953 government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran Press reported.

Foreign minister Zarif said Hook is either unaware of the Iranian history of the 1950s in which case he should consult the National Security Archives of the United States, or else he is deliberately trying to revise or re-write history, a shameful attempt which should be stopped immediately.

Zarif tweeted on Tuesday: "For those who are either unaware of, or wilfully revisionist on, the history of US involvement in the 1953 Coup against the democratically elected government of Iran."

Zarif also included a hyperlink to the relevant National Security Archive of the United States pertaining to CIA's undisputed role in the 1953 coup that ousted the democratically-elected government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.

Earlier, Brian Hook, senior State Department official, US Special Representative for Iran and Senior Policy Advisor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, had made the baseless claim that Mossadegh's government collapsed due to pressure from Iranian religious figures, politicians and the Iranian army, denying that the CIA had any role in orchestrating a coup against Mossadegh.

It is worth noting that John Kerry in a speech at the University of Chicago in 2016, and also Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama had all acknowledged in their various speeches that the CIA was directly involved and had a major role in bringing down the Mossadegh government of 1953.   101/211

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